[SeekAndFind]

The companies in question would be free to add to the employment pool of the skill in question but they would NOT have any indentured slaves to toil for them at sub-par wages.

Can you explain to us how that will be good for the many IT workers in the USA ( not Indians, but citizens ) who are looking for work themselves at a time of high unemployment?

[sinanju]

It means that H1-B imports will have to be paid the prevailing wage and won’t undercut U.S. citizens with the same skills.